Library starting group for mothers and daughters

Sunday

Nov 25, 2012 at 3:15 AM

By ANDREA ROSE

The Martha Sawyer Community Library is considering a group for mothers and daughters.

The group will begin with meeting mothers first to discuss important issues, such as body image, peer pressure, marketing and more, using the materials donated by The University of Maine-Cooperative Extension in York County. Moms will then invite their daughters to meet with them to go over the material that the group has reviewed.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email the library at mscl@msad60.org by Saturday, Dec. 1.

RABIES CLINIC

Great Brook Animal Care will hold a rabies clinic on Sunday, Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the East Lebanon Fire Station on Depot Road. The cost is $12.

DOG LICENSES

2013 Dog Licenses are available at the Lebanon Town Office. The cost is $11 for unaltered animals and $6 for those that have been spayed or neutered. Please bring a current rabies certificate. For more information, call 457-6082

TOYS FOR LOCAL CHILDREN

Applications for the Lebanon Fire Department’s annual “Toys for Lebanon Kids” campaign are now available at the Lebanon Town Office on Upper Guinea Road during regular business hours.

This program helps provide toys for Lebanon residents, from newborns to 16-year-olds.

Applications are due before Saturday, Dec. 20.

This program has been ongoing since 1996 when it was called “Toys for Tots,” but the name was changed in 2009 to avoid conflict with the Marines, who use the “Toys for Tots” name nationwide. Toys are collected at various drop-off points in Lebanon through generous donations.

Collection points can be found at these area businesses: Salmon Falls Cafe, Profile-State Line Super Store, Batchelders Sales and Service, Hometown Mobil, Lebanon House of Pizza and Welch’s Hardware, which are all located on Carl Broggi Highway. You also can drop off donations at the town office during regular business hours and at the East Lebanon Fire Department located on the corner of Depot Road and Upper Cross Road.

To add your children to the list, pick up an application at the town office during business hours, or stop at the East Lebanon Fire Station on Saturday or Sunday between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon or at any time you see the chief’s car there. You also can go online to https://www.lebanonmefire.org/Home_Page.php and print out the application.

Toys will be distributed to the applicants on Saturday, Dec. 22, at the East Lebanon Fire Station between the hours of 1 and 3 p.m.

For more information, you contact Chief Wood at 207-457-3922 or email him at chiefwood@metrocast.net.

RESCUERS ALSO COLLECTING

Lebanon Rescue is collecting toys for its “Operation Santa” toy and coat drive. The department has been helping hand out toys and coats to Lebanon children for the past 16 years.

“Last year, we added a visit by Santa to the houses of about 230 Lebanon children on the two days before Christmas, which was not only amazing for the children and families themselves, but for the responders as well,” Lebanon Rescue Chief Samantha Cole said in a prepared statement. “To see the looks on the children’s faces was amazing. When we pulled up in the ambulance and had the kids yell, ‘Santa is here!’ and just see their smiles will live with the responders for many years to come.

“This year, we will be once again collecting new, unwrapped toys to help children in town who have suffered a traumatic event like a loss of a loved one. We do this in addition to the Operation Santa, which provides a toy to any child in town who would like a free visit from Santa.”

Residents who want to drop off toys to help Lebanon children can drop them off at the following locations on Carl Broggi Highway: Kenney Automotive, Stokewoods Restaurant, Lebanon House of Pizza, Trains QuickStop and in the blue box outside the Lebanon Rescue Station.

Toys are needed for ages newborn right through teenagers. Last year, due to the generosity of the residents, the rescue department was able to help 225 kids through “Operation Santa” and about 20 families additionally through the toys for families who have suffered a traumatic event. Donations will be accepted through Dec. 23.

The Lebanon Board of Selectmen will meet in workshop sessions on Monday, Nov. 12, and Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 3:30 p.m. at the town office on Upper Guinea Road.

Additional workshops will be held on Nov. 26 and 27.

SUPERINTENDENT TO TOUR DEC. 30

New Maine School Administrative District 60 Superintendent Steven Connolly will tour all the schools in the district, including Lebanon Elementary School and the Hanson School in Lebanon, on Monday, Dec. 3.

There will be a welcome reception, open to the public, for Connolly on Thursday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 7 p.m., before the start of the school board meeting at Noble High School at 388 Somersworth Road in North Berwick.